Heel attachment



(No Model.)

C. GRUMBAGH.

HEEL ATTACHMENT. No. 407,860. Patented July 30, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES GRUIWIBAOH, OF HOUSTON, TEXAS.

HEEL ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 407,860, dated J' uly30, 1889.

Application filed March 16, 1889. Serial No. 303,511. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that l, CHARLES GRUMBACH, a citizen of the United States,residing at Houston, in the county of Harris and State of Texas, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Heel Attachments, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in heel attachments to enable theheels to be adjusted to either shoe, so that they may be reversed whenworn; and it consists in a certain novel construction and combination ofparts fully described hereinafter in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, and speciiically pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, Figure lis a side view of a shoe provided with theimproved heel attachment. Fig. 2 is a central sectional View of the heeland a portion of the sho e. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the shoe-plate.Fig. 4 is a similar view of the heel with the heel-plate attachedthereto. Fig. 5 is a modification hereinafter described.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A designates the sole of a shoe, towhich at the proper point is attached the sole-plate B by means of thesmall screws O C or other suitable securing devices. The edges of thissoleplate are upset to form the flange D, to the free edge of which isrigidly attached the inward-extending rim-plate E, thereby forming agroove F around the periphery of the soleplate. The free edge of theupset flange may, if preferred, be turned inward to form this groove.(See Fig. 5.)

The heel G is provided on its upper side with a plate H, (which issecured thereto by means of screws g g,) and the edges of the plate arethinned, as shown, to enable them to it in the peripheral groove on thesoleplate.

The sole and heel plates conform in shape to the heel, and after theyare combined by sliding the edges of the latter into the groove on theformer the upper side of thev heel is held close to the sole of theshoe.

A locking-screw K is passed through the sole of the shoe and throughcentral registering-perforations I and L in the sole and heel plates,respectively, and screwed into the 5o heel (after the latter is arrangedin the desired position) to secure it firmly in place.

From the above description it will be seen that the heels may. beapplied to either shoe, so that when they become worn on the outer sidethey may be exchanged and placed on the other shoe, so that the wear isdistributed. Further, the heels may be made in such sizes that they maybe applied to different pairs of shoes, whereby if a customer prefer aheel 6o of certain shape he may be suited by applying a heel of thedesired shape to the shoe which he has selected.

The invention is simple and cheap, consisting merely of two interlockingplates, which are applied to a heel of the ordinary con, struction, andit may be readily and quickly applied.

Having thus described the invention, I Claim- The shoehaving the sole A,provided with the plate B, having the struck-up flange D, and U-plate E,the iiange and plate forming the groove F, and the plateV B beingfurther provided with the perforation I, in combination with the heel G,provided at its upper end with the plate H, supported slightly above thesame and adapted to fit the groove F, and provided with a perforationaligningL9 with the perforation I, and the screw K, in- 8ou serteddownwardly through the perforation and terminating in the heel,substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in presence of two Witnesses.

CHARLES GRUMBACH.

lVit-nesses: l

R. J. MARSHALL, J. H. SIGGEES.

